Thorstein¶
Thorstein is a renegade Hollowlock who broke with the devil Hal'Gamesh and went to ground in the half-buried ruins of an old Kalari abbey in the Florentine Woodlands of Floren, digging, with a bound demon, for the pieces of a stone of uncorrupted power (S138, S161).
The abbey¶
Hal'Gamesh's first task for the minions he took at Harwith was to "Kill Renegade Hollowlock Thorstein & Demon Jalgrek" and make them return "the piece" (S138). Thorstein "has an underground lair/home in the ½ buried ruins of an old Kalari abbey where he is digging to uncover another piece", working "with 2 other weak relic hunters" and kept by "2 big dogs for guards/protection" (S138). The piece he held is the Worldstone Heart, a part of the Mithis Heartstone (S138).
When the devil's minions found him, he and "his enslaved demon" were "digging the ruins of an abbey ... he was driven by a black stone" (S161). They bargained instead of killing him, and "spared him in return for his demon killing the imp (Vag'Drothos)", one of Hal'Gamesh's greater imps (S138, S161).
The third piece¶
Later Thorstein "has 2 pieces now which magnetically lock together. He has seen the location of the 3rd in a vision, it is a completely buried ruin not far from here. However, it is guarded and he needs your help defeating the guardian" (S162). He was to seek out the company in the village of Guillon and "beg their help finding the 3rd piece" (S162). What came of it belongs to the Sancturi Campaign.
Jalgrek¶
Jalgrek is the demon bound to Thorstein, "his enslaved demon" (S138, S161). At Thorstein's bidding it killed the greater imp Vag'Drothos, a servant of Hal'Gamesh (S161).
Gap
The sources do not say what Thorstein owed Hal'Gamesh, how he came by the first piece, how he bound Jalgrek, or what the guardian of the third piece was ("Guardian is ??", S162).
Earlier accounts¶
In the first draft of the scenario the renegade is Olivand, the Hollowlock partner of the devil Hez'Vandros, the earlier form of Hal'Gamesh: "we had a kind of partnership where he would kidnap some people for me and I would give him refuge and power and such ... anyway, he kinda stole some things from me and then had the AUDACITY to call in some witch hunters to try to take me down and destroy this Hollow" (S145). Hez wanted him "captured alive", since "revenge is so much more fun when they aren't dead" (S145).
Olivand holds "the one part of one of the three Mithis Heartstones. He doesn't know what he has, but he knows its big since it creates non-hollowing Mithis fields around it" (S145). Caught, he would beg for his life:
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"I'm onto something REALLY big and important here … please don't kill me. I know I messed with Haz and he has some hold on you forcing you to be here. Whatever it is, I can help you … We can figure it out together how to get free you from Haz." ... "Look, I know i've done some really terrible things and hurt a lot of people. That wasn't always me. I can be better … back more like I was … maybe with this thing I can do even do good." ... "What I do know is that this piece of rock here generates magic … an uncorrupted non-hollowing magic like what used to exist back in the days of wizards and magi and stuff. Maybe somebody smarter than me can use it to figure out what went wrong and how to fix the Hollows."
The Hearnst draft (S145) was replaced by the Harwith scenario (S138).